Factors Influencing Birth Preparedness in Rapti Municipality of Chitwan, Nepal

Table 4

Comparison between sociodemographic characteristics with birth preparation practices ().

Characteristics	Birth preparation practice		value
	Poor preparation ( (%))	Better preparation ( (%))
Age (years)
≤20	5 (38.5)	8 (61.5)	0.003
21-35	29 (22.8)	98 (77.2)
≥36	14 (56.0)	11 (44.0)
Religion
Hindu	13 (16.9)	64 (83.1)	<0.001
Buddhists	22 (32.4)	46 (67.6)
Christian	13 (65.0)	7 (35.0)
Family type
Nuclear	23 (22.1)	81 (77.9)	<0.009
Joint/extended	25 (41.4)	36 (58.6)
Education
Uneducated	24 (52.2)	22 (47.8)	<0.001
Educated	24 (20.16)	95 (79.83)
Husband’s education
Uneducated	18 (60.0)	12 (40.0)	<0.001
Educated	30 (22.2)	105 (77.7)
Occupation
Housewife/agriculture	46 (29.9)	108 (70.1)	0.512
Working women	2 (18.2)	9 (81.8)
Age at marriage (years)
<20	45 (40.9)	65 (59.1)	<0.001
≥20	3 (5.5)	52 (94.5)
Parity
Single	8 (14.5)	47 (85.5)	<0.001
Twice	13 (21.3)	48 (78.7)
3 times	11 (44.0)	14 (56.0)
4 and more times	16 (66.7)	8 (33.3)
No. of children
Single	8 (13.8)	50 (86.2)	0.011
Two	14 (22.6)	48 (77.4)
Three to four	11 (44.0)	14 (56.0)

Chi-squared test, Fisher’s exact test.